Lufthansa has filed injunctions with Düsseldorf and Darmstadt labor courts to stop the unprecedented strike—which began Friday, Nov. 6, over pay, retirement benefits and working conditions.
Airbus will eventually build a re-engined, more efficient neo version of the A380, COO customers John Leahy believes, and entry-into-service could be around 2023.
Vietnamese low-cost carrier Vietjet signed a firm order Tuesday for 30 Airbus A321s, including 21 neos, bringing its total firm orders for A320 family aircraft to 99.
The chairman of China Southern Airlines, Si Xianmin, is being investigated for “severe violations of discipline,” according to a statement from Chinese corruption monitoring agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).
266 firearms were discovered at US airports in October 2015, up 33.3% year-over-year, as detailed in Total TSA Gun Catches for October 2015 (loaded or unloaded firearms, plus stun-guns, discovered at TSA checkpoints at airports across the US).
Air China reported a 2015 nine-month net profit of CNY6.28 billion ($99 million), nearly doubled from CNY3.17 billion in the year-ago period from January to September.
Lufthansa has canceled 929 out of 3,000 flights on the third day of a week-long cabin crew strike over pay, retirement benefits and working conditions.
Emirates has started a review of security measures at airports throughout the Middle East, Western Asia and Africa as a consequence of the Oct. 31 crash of a Metrojet Airbus A321 in Egypt.
India’s Jet Airways has placed an order for 75 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. The order was previously booked by Boeing in the backlog as coming from an undisclosed customer, but was officially revealed at the Dubai Air Show Monday.
Latvian national carrier airBaltic will be the launch customer for the CS300 version of Bombardier’s CSeries, the manufacturer announced at the Dubai Air Show Nov. 8.
Emirates wants more airline operational data for the Airbus A350 before making a decision about an order for the type, or for more Boeing 787s, the airline's President Tim Clark said at the Dubai Air Show.
Egypt’s Accident Investigation Committee has said its initial observation of the aircraft wreckage from the Oct. 31 Metrojet Airbus A321 crash “does not yet allow for identifying the origin of the inflight breakup.”
Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia has wet-leased two Airbus A319s from Czech Airlines to increase capacity on its domestic routes as it gears up to face competitive pressures from new rivals in the Kingdom.
Delta Air Lines could potentially set up a non-US subsidiary housing its international operations and joint ventures to reduce the amount of US taxes it pays, according to a Wall Street analyst report.
Icelandic low-cost carrier (LCC) WOW Air plans to acquire three Airbus A330-300s to launch services from Reykjavik Keflavik to Los Angeles and San Francisco from summer 2016.
